Has his insignificance finally started to dawn on Farage? A quote from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66097039 "He said that losing his bank account was the equivalent of being a "non-person""
You missed my favourite part - Farridge accidentally admitting that, unlike the image he tries to convey, he hasn't been Coutts-rich at any point over the last decade.
I am loath to defend Farage but it doesn't seem to me like he ever tried to pose as being super rich? Perhaps he should have taken a few notes from Trump on how to embezzle (legally!?) funds from dopey donors
I dunno about "super rich," but he's certainly always painted himself as a cut above. Dude was a commodities trader before he realised politics was easier... And there's only one reason to get a Coutts account over any other: so you can flash the card around the place. They don't even do cashback on supermarket purchases, if you can believe it!
Coutts is for posers... C Hoare and Co. is [iirc... i'm told... etc...] where the actually minted go. I don;t get how 'bank that's selective about who its customers are is selective about its customers are...' was such big news. Farage comes over like the rabid Gramma/Selective school pushers who are all for them... right up until their kid doesn't get selected.
Farage was just using the bank situation to try and raise his profile. Seems to have failed, oh dear.
The bigger problem with that situation was that a bank boss leaked details of Farage's financials to the press. Even when it's a self-centred hatefull little troll like Farage that's not on.
Grant Schapps in as Defence Secretary. If that doesn't say it all about the current Conservative Party, I don't know what does. As a reminder, this is the Schapps who: threatened to sue a constituent for claiming he was moonlighting under an assumed name, which turned out to be false only in the sense that he was moonlighting under three assumed names; who made up testimonials for his business; a business which sold stolen software; and set up a literal Ponzi scheme to defraud people out of $497 a chuck; who set up an all-party parliamentary group on blockchain technology after being given a £700,000 bung from cryptocurrency outfit OpenBrix; and who, in November 2015, stood down after an investigation found him to have actively ignored accusations of bullying within the Conservative Party which led to a young man's suicide; and who spends his free time tweaking his own Wikipedia page and those of his rivals. He'll jump to attention if you call for Michael Green, Corinne Stockheath, or Sebastian Fox, and in less than a year has held the roles of Transport Secretary (sacked by Truss), Home Secretary (brought in by Truss 'cos Bravermann flounced), Business Secretary, entirely-invented Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary (a role Sunak has now filled with a nobody from deep within the party, who becomes the youngest Cabinet member by some considerable margin and brings zero experience to the job), and now Defence Secretary. If you vote for the Tories, this is who you're voting for. Schapps, and those who enable him. God help us all.
